Posted on 07/02/2013 10:40:03 AM PDT by William Tell 2
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last month the launching of the "eGallon" - a tool that will compare the costs of fueling electric vehicles (EVs) to fueling gasoline-powered ones. According to the report, the national average eGallon price is about $1.14.
This means that an EV can travel as far on $1.14
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All you need is a $40,000 car with a $10,000 battery that explodes if it sits around. Wonder what the insurance will be on these things.
Too bad you can only use that $1.14 worth once every eight hours.
Are they coming out with E-Battery?
... an app that would compute the cost of a car battery versus and battery for an electric car?
Okay, maybe so! But can you pull a boat with one of those things? How about a trailer?
Something about liars and figures comes to mind.
California released a study today that showed there are NO SAVINGS in using “green” cars. The cost of generating the electricity and the cost of getting rid of the battery waste after the car is wrecked or ruined is detrimental to their use.
I can see the Electric Co catching wind of this and require the EV to have it own meter! And that price will equal a gallon of gas! Watch for it.
Oh, but wait for the price after the EPA destroys coal electricity.
OK, I am suspicious as to the $1.14. Give me the calculations on that and also the source. What is the cost of electricity per KW to calculate that. What are your test results that show gallon to Kw equivalent? What car is it that uses so little electricity? How much is electricity going up? What electrical taxes are you going to have to charge for us to repair your roads?
Articles like this create more questions than they answer.
My Corolla cost me $13,000 (6 years ago).
I can travel about 375 miles at highway speeds >70mph on one charge of the energy storage system, leaving a reasonable safety margin of energy remaining in the energy storage cell. I can recharge the energy storage cell in less than 10 minutes. Recharging stations abound, in a competitive marketplace.
If the purveyors of electric cars wish to succeed in a free market, that is approximately the performance standard they must meet.
This is based on a national average of $$/kwh, but my power bill has another 20% added to it for fees and taxes and these are all percentages of my energy usage, so you can increase that $1.14 by 20% right away even before we start doing the economic analysis for total cost of ownership and battery degradation.
(*if you plug it into your neighbor’s outlet and get the electricity basically for free)
Oh Yeah, I am going to believe anything those sondabi7ches tell me.
E-Bull$hit
I,OTOH,pay just over 20 cents for a kWh.And my understanding is that there are places that pay even more.I don't know what the "national average" is...which is what this figure may be based upon.
Too many folks shaking the magic 8-ball to come up with these figures, or ... you know where else they get those figures.
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